Frases de Rudyard Kipling

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“Deus não podia estar em todo o lado e por isso criou as mães.”

“Os princípios são os princípios, nem que o sangue tenha de correr pelas ruas!”

“Não há prazer comparável ao de encontrar um velho amigo, a não ser o de fazer um novo.”

“A mais tola das mulheres pode manipular um homem inteligente, mas seria necessário que uma mulher fosse muito hábil para manipular um imbecil.”

“O fracasso e o sucesso são impostores. Ninguém fracassa tanto como imagina. Ninguém tem tanto sucesso como imagina.”

“Se encomendares a um homem mais do que ele possa humanamente fazer, fá-lo-á. Se somente lhe encomendares o que pode fazer, não o fará.”

“A mais tola das mulheres pode governar um homem inteligente.”

“Sempre me inclinei a pensar bem de toda a gente; evita muitos problemas.”

“Pois a força do Bando é o Lobo, e a força do Lobo é o Bando.”

“A mulher mais idiota pode dominar um sábio. Mas é preciso uma mulher extremamente sábia para dominar um idiota.”

“Tenho comigo, seis servos leais (que me ensinaram tudo o que aprendi): Os seis nomes são: O QUE, POR QUE, QUANDO, COMO, ONDE e QUEM.”

“Viaja mais rápido quem viaja sozinho.”

“As PALAVRAS são, é claro, a mais poderosa droga utilizada pelo humanidade.”

“Tenho seis regras que me ensinaram tudo o que sei: O quê?, Porquê?, Quando?, Como?, Onde?, e Quem?”

“Se tens a beleza simples e mais nada, tens tudo o que Deus fez de melhor.”

“Preencha o minuto em que você acha impossível perdoar por 60 segundos de distanciamento.”

“Nunca é alto o preço a pagar pelo privilégio de pertencer a si mesmo…”

“O que fica de pé, se cair a liberdade?”

“A vitória e o fracasso são dois impossíveis, e é necessário recebê-los com idêntica serenidade e com uma saudável dose de desdém.”

“Toda a gente está mais ou menos louca em algum aspecto.”

“Não admitas 'à priori' nada que possas verificar.”

“Pois em todas as espécies a fêmea é mais mortífera que o macho.”

“A providência ajuda os que ajudam os outros.”

“Temos quarenta milhões de razões para o fracasso, mas nenhuma desculpa.”

“Se és capaz de, entre a plebe, não te corromperes, e, entre Reis, não perder a naturalidade (…) tua é a Terra com tudo o que existe no mundo”

“Se puderes enfrentar o Triunfo e o Desastre
E tratar esses dois impostores do mesmo modo…”

“Arranja problemas emprestados, se essa for a tua natureza, mas não os emprestes aos teus vizinhos.”

“I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

“For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.”

“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”

“For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”

“The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.”

“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.”

“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”

“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.”

“My heart is so tired”

“Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie.”

“War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.”

“This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.”

“We had a kettle; we let it leak:
Our not repairing made it worse.
We haven't had any tea for a week…
The bottom is out of the Universe.”

“Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.”

“All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.”

“All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
And every one else is They:
But if you cross over the sea,
Instead of over the way,
You may end by (think of it!) looking on We
As only a sort of They!”

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”

“When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.”

“Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.”

“If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.”

“I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.”

“And the first rude sketch that the world has seen
was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it art?”

“TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -
Wanted to know what the River knew,
Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,
For they were young, and the Thames was old
And this is the tale that River told:”

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.”

“A Time For Prayer

"In times of war and not before,
God and the soldier we adore.
But in times of peace and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the soldier slighted."

-Rudyard Kipling”

“I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.”

“How can you do anything until you have seen everything, or as much as you can?”

“Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood”

“We be of one blood, ye and I.”